local editorial on Warren Appointment...

you know I will respond....any comments(Fact-based)
I've already referred Paul to Bush's appointments and cheney's energy meetings.

http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2010/09/19/opinion/doc4c959f147c3fd246856350.txt
Secrecy and open government
Published: Sunday, September 19, 2010 12:58 AM CDT
Paul Perry
Guest columnist

It looks as though Barack Hussein Obama will appoint Elizabeth Warren as a special advisor to the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law Professor, was initially slated to become the first director of the agency. By appointing her as “special advisor,” read czar, the President’s czar will avoid the Senate confirmation process.

All modern Presidents have appointed special advisors, but recently under this administration the number of these often well-compensated federal employees has grown astronomically. Under Obama we have set records.

Many of them, like Van Jones — a radical leftist and environmental radical — were so unacceptable they could not go through the Senate confirmation process. He finally even stepped aside from his “special advisor” position. No surprise that in Washington, your money is being spent on the salaries of these czars and there are no checks and balances.

Claims have been made that some of these czars are uncompensated. Public records revealed that so called pay (TARP) czar Ken Feinberg received $120,000 plus in annual compensation. It initially was claimed he was unpaid.

Even worse these czars serve at the discretion of the President. The President has total control over them. In Obama’s administration these Czars often have more influence than department heads, yet they are never vetted. Czar was a term used in the days of the old Russian monarchy. It is a fitting title, especially in this administration.

Is this the open government promised by BHO as he campaigned for his job materialized? No. The fact is that no President has appointed more unaccountable czars and czarinas than President Obama. This President is one of the most secretive we have had and often his secrets are guarded by an army of private czars.

Bluntly, Professor Warren, a native Oklahoman, has some interesting things to say, but her points are going to be undermined by her avoidance (at the administration’s direction) of the Senate confirmation process. I would venture a guess that if she were vetted in a Senate hearing, as the director of the new bureau, she would be a net positive for this administration. As a spectral un-vetted czarina, she will eventually be seen as part of the problem by the voters.

Locally, credit should be given to where credit is due. Last Thursday your Republican dominated county court convened and passed a budget that will require no tax increase and no rate increase. In the current economic environment that took some work, and budgets were reduced. There was also a decrease in what we taxpayers match to our county employee retirement plan. I hope that reduction will only need to be a temporary measure.

The fact is this economy is a tough place to make a living. Even though Ellis County has proven a better place to weather it than much of the rest of the nation, problems abound.

I know working families that have increased their medical insurance deductibles to more than $5,000 in order to retain some form of insurance. Many small businesses and self employed are at a fraction of normal income. Some business owners have cut their own salaries to prevent laying off their own employees even though these very same people face the real possibility of a tax increase should all the Bush tax cuts not be extended.

We can ask no less of our various levels of government.

Paul D. Perry is a contributing columnist for the Daily Light. He is a local businessman and mediator and a former Ellis County justice of the peace.

(after having read your lttes), but as soon as I got to "Hussein", I knew it was going to be a hatchet job. And I think Perry is wrong. Didn't Bush appoint more czars and "czarinas"?
Go get 'em w8liftinglady!

and his 'czars' that supposedly are way more than any other president has ever done and gives kudos to republicans who pass a budget with no tax increases, he complains about what people are facing regarding healthcare costs and oh lets extend the tax cuts. tax cuts that won't help those business owners he is so worried about. the fact that these jerks buy this bs is amazing to me. warren is the only person i would trust to be honest with the american people and actually try to DO something to help US and not wall street. it's just pissing me off that these jerks go on and on about obama for things that bush did even worse and they never said a thing.